Baseball-Yankees' A-Rod breaks hand in Mariners loss

July 25, 2012|Reuters

July 24 (Reuters) - The Seattle Mariners beat the New YorkYankees 4-2 on Tuesday, the visitors suffering further insult bylosing Alex Rodriguez with a broken hand.

Felix Hernandez was solid for the better part of his 7 1/3innings pitched, but he hit Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez withpitches in the eighth inning where he and Rodriguez bothdeparted with the home Mariners leading 3-1.

Rodriguez was struck on the left hand and suffered afracture that will put him on the disabled list, according toYankees manager Joe Girardi following the game.

Seattle reliever Lucas Luetge came on in place of Hernandezand allowed a run that cut the lead to 3-2 before getting out ofthe inning.

The Mariners (43-56) added a run in the bottom of the eighthand avenged a defeat to New York Monday on the same day 10-timeAll Star Ichiro Suzuki was traded from Seattle to the Yankees.